3 ms·
The thing is, the legislation is tweaked to the benefit of the giants, not against them. At least in general. Not even federal government with their delusions
by AstralStorm 8y ago
The thing is, the legislation is tweaked to the benefit of the giants, not against them. At least in general.
Not even federal government with their delusions of absolute control can do anything. (Say, FISA insanity.)
Net neutrality was a contest between two big corps. Patent battles ruled to support American business despite clear violations? (Qualcomm et al.)
The used to be laws considering encryption to be munitions. Silly attempt to sabotage it AKA Clipper. Yet somehow AI systems to discriminate explicitly sold to opposing regimes are not despite being much more applicable.
On the other hand, there is Comcast and Time Warner.
- Retric 8y agoI think the public benifits from that to some degree. A search engine index is inherently a derivative work and without updated legislation could easily qualify as copyright infringement. I am not saying is fair, but other industries which get away with actually killing people (ex: fine particle pollution from coal power plants). So, bias is somewhat expected from how our system works, it’s just not all bad.